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

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.