Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.