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

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.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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

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