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.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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.

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

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.