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

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

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.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

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

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.