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.

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

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

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.

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