John Dewey: “Events cannot be passed from one to another, but meanings may be shared by means of signs.”

Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.