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.

Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.