It Is Surely A Matter Of Common

There Is Nothing Less To Our Credit Than Our Neglect Of The Foreigner And His Children, Unless It Be The Arrogance Most Of Us Betray When We Set Out To "americanize" Him.

A Person Of Mature Years And Ripe Development, Who Is Expecting Nothing From Literature But The Corroboration And Renewal Of Past Ideas, May Find Satisfaction In A Lucidity So Complete As To Occasion No Imaginative Excitement, But Young And Ambitious Students Are Not Content With It. They Seek The Excitement Because They Are Capable Of The Growth That It Accompanies.

The Idea Of Freedom Is Quite In Accord With A General, Though Vague, Sentiment Among Us; It Is An Idea Of Fair Play, Of Giving Everyone A Chance; And Nothing Arouses More General And Active Indignation Among Our People Than The Belief That Some One Or Some Class Is Not Getting A Fair Chance.

Failure Sometimes Enlarges The Spirit. You Have To Fall Back Upon Humanity And God.

It Is Surely A Matter Of Common Observation That A Man Who Knows No One Thing Intimately Has No Views Worth Hearing On Things In General.