One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

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

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."

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

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

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

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.