I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislature, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

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

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.