America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.