Of All Aspects Of Social Misery Nothing

The Identification With The Common Lot Which Is The Essential Idea Of Democracy Becomes The Source And Expression Of Social Ethics. It Is As Though We Thirsted To Drink At The Great Wells Of Human Experience, Because We Knew That A Daintier Or Less Potent Draught Would Not Carry Us To The End Of The Journey, Going Forward As We Must In The Heat And Jostle Of The Crowd.

A Long-established Occupation May Form The Very Foundations Of The Moral Life, That The Art With Which A Man Has Solaced His Toil May Be The Salvation Of His Uncertain Temperament.

We All Know That Each Generation Has Its Own Test, The Contemporaneous And Current Standard By Which Alone It Can Adequately Judge Of Its Own Moral Achievements, And That It May Not Legitimately Use A Previous And Less Vigorous Test. The Advanced Test Must Indeed Include That Which Has Already Been Attained; But If It Includes No More, We Shall Fail To Go Forward, Thinking Complacently That We Have "arrived" When In Reality We Have Not Yet Started.

Much Of The Insensibility And Hardness Of The World Is Due To The Lack Of Imagination Which Prevents A Realization Of The Experiences Of Other People.

Life Cannot Be Administered By Definite Rules And Regulations; That Wisdom To Deal With A Man's Difficulties Comes Only Through Some Knowledge Of His Life And Habits As A Whole.