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.

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

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

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.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.