The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

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.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.