In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

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

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

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

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.

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