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….

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

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held..

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others..

I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to….

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it..

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled..

My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possib….

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his….

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanen….

This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the ear….

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have ….

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in.".

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

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

Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and s….

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping….

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in….

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress..

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as….

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights..