Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

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

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

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

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

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.