Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Unless we can help the world where we are, we could not help it if we were somewhere else.
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
To what is good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and wilful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
To each one of us is given in some degree the power to create and distribute happiness, and that is about the best thing any one of us can do. There is no surer way to keep the fire of happiness burning in our own hearts than by sharing its brightness with others.
This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.
This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not enough for the concrete, because we allow our daily bits of bravery to evaporate.
