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

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.

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.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

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

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

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.