I Might Believe I Had Unusual Talent

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.

Social Advance Depends Quite As Much Upon An Increase In Moral Sensibility As It Does Upon A Sense Of Duty.

The Lessons Of Great Men And Women Are Lost Unless They Reinforce Upon Our Minds The Highest Demands Which We Make Upon Ourselves; They Are Lost Unless They Drive Our Sluggish Wills Forward In The Direction Of Their Highest Ideas.

Civilization Is A Method Of Living, An Attitude Of Equal Respect For All Men.

The Popular Books Are The Novels, Dealing With Life Under All Possible Conditions, And They Are Widely Read Not Only Because They Are Entertaining, But Also Because They In A Measure Satisfy An Unformulated Belief That To See Farther, To Know All Sorts Of Men, In An Indefinite Way, Is A Preparation For Better Social Adjustment--for The Remedying Of Social Ills.