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 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.

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

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.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.