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

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.

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

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.

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

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

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