It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.