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

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

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.

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

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

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.

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