The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.