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

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

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

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.

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.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.