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

I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

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