The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

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

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

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.

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.