Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.