When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

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

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

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.