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

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

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

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.

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

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.

Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.