Unless Our Conception Of Patriotism Is Progressive,

We Forget That The Accumulation Of Knowledge And The Holding Of Convictions Must Finally Result In The Application Of That Knowledge And Those Convictions To Life Itself.

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.

To Attain Individual Morality In An Age Demanding Social Morality, To Pride One's Self On The Results Of Personal Effort When The Time Demands Social Adjustment, Is Utterly To Fail To Apprehend The Situation.

National Events Determine Our Ideals, As Much As Our Ideals Determine National Events.

Life Cannot Be Administered By Definite Rules And Regulations; That Wisdom To Deal With A Man's Difficulties Comes Only Through Some Knowledge Of His Life And Habits As A Whole.