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.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

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

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.

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.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.