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

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

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.

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.

Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

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

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.