It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

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

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.