The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

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.

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.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.