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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.”

“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.”