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.

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

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.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

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

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