Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

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.

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

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.

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.