I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally to win the rights of man. And herein may we see the deep philosophy of Him who bade men love their neighbors as themselves. In that spirit, and in no other, is the power to solve social problems and carry civilization onward.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.