“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.”

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

“Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.”

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

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

“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.”