National Events Determine Our Ideals, As Much

All Those Hints And Glimpses Of A Larger And More Satisfying Democracy, Which Literature And Our Own Hopes Supply, Have A Tendency To Slip Away From Us And To Leave Us Sadly Unguided And Perplexed When We Attempt To Act Upon Them.

If In A Democratic Country Nothing Can Be Permanently Achieved Save Through The Masses Of The People, It Will Be Impossible To Establish A Higher Political Life Than The People Themselves Crave.

Hospitality Still Survives Among Foreigners, Although It Is Buried Under False Pride Among The Poorest Americans.

The Common Stock Of Intellectual Enjoyment Should Not Be Difficult Of Access Because Of The Economic Position Of Him Who Would Approach It.

It Is Easy To Become The Dupe Of A Deferred Purpose, Of The Promise The Future Can Never Keep, And I Had Fallen Into The Meanest Type Of Self-deception In Making Myself Believe That All This Was In Preparation For Great Things To Come.