The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.
There is no advance without strife.
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.