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

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."

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

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

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

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.