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

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

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

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.

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

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."