The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.