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

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

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 as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

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.