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.

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.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

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

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.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.