Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

Consensus demands communication.

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.