The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.
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.
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.
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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.
Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights, then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.
In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.
It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that "Ethics" is but another word for "righteousness," that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless.