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

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

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

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

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."

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.