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.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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

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.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

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

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.