Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

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

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

The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

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

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.