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

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

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.

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.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

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.