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.

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

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

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

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

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.