As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.