The Mass Of Men Seldom Move Together

I Have Come To Believe ... That The Stage May Do More Than Teach, That Much Of Our Current Moral Instruction Will Not Endure The Test Of Being Cast Into A Lifelike Mold, And When Presented In Dramatic Form Will Reveal Itself As Platitudinous And Effete. That Which May Have Sounded Like Righteous Teaching When It Was Remote And Wordy, Will Be Challenged Afresh When It Is Obliged To Simulate Life Itself.

Pliable Human Nature Is Relentlessly Pressed Upon By Its Physical Environment.

I Might Believe I Had Unusual Talent If I Did Not Know What Good Music Was; I Might Enjoy Half An Hour's Practice A Day If I Were Busy And Happy The Rest Of The Time. You Do Not Know What Life Means When All The Difficulties Are Removed! I Am Simply Smothered And Sickened With Advantages. It Is Like Eating A Sweet Dessert The First Thing In The Morning.

The Rich Landlord Is He Who Collects With Sternness, Who Accepts No Excuse, And Will Have His Own. There Are Moments Of Irritation And Of Real Bitterness Against Him, But There Is Still Admiration, Because He Is Rich And Successful.

In A Thousand Voices Singing The Hallelujah Chorus In Handel's "messiah," It Is Possible To Distinguish The Leading Voices, But The Differences Of Training And Cultivation Between Them And The Voices In The Chorus, Are Lost In The Unity Of Purpose And In The Fact That They Are All Human Voices Lifted By A High Motive.