A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

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

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

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

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

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.