No One So Poignantly Realizes The Failures

The Essence Of Immorality Is The Tendency To Make An Exception Of Myself.

We Have Learned To Say That The Good Must Be Extended To All Of Society Before It Can Be Held Secure By Any One Person Or Any One Class. But We Have Not Yet Learned To Add To That Statement, That Unless All [people] And All Classes Contribute To A Good, We Cannot Even Be Sure That It Is Worth Having.

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 Be Flattened As My Father’s Had Become, During His Earlier Years Of A Miller’s Life.

National Events Determine Our Ideals, As Much As Our Ideals Determine National Events.

The Worth Of Every Conviction Consists Precisely In The Steadfastness With Which It Is Held.