Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

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

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.

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."

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.