“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life
“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself
“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner
“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to who
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin
“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
“What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.