It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-decepti….

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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..

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….

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

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.".

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

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 f….

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….

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..

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