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.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

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.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.