Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

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

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

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

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.