Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.
I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.
Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.
Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.
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.
We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.
What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history.
As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.
Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.
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