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

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

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.