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

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

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.

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

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

Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.