Great Throughts Treasury

"Action indeed is the sole medium for expression of ethics."

"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what it is taught, hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it."

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

"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. "

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

"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."

"We slowly learn that life consists of processes as well as results, and that failure may come quite as easily from ignoring the adequacy of one's method as from selfish or ignoble aims. We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all [people], nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all [people], but as that which affords a rule for living as well as a test of faith."