It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

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.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

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.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

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

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

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

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

Running a liberal paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of an awl to a wild cat.