Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

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

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

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

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!