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

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.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

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

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

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