“Strong joy and grief depend upon the treatment this rudimentary social self receives.”

“While the Father is self-dependent, the son is completely dependent upon the Father.”

“The survival and development of democracy depends not so much on the development of democratic ideals which are wide-spread and strong. Today, more than ever before, democracy depends upon the development of efficient forms of democratic social management and upon the spreading of the skill in such management to the common man.”

“Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.”

“Specialization in this world is rudimentary and self-sufficiency characterizes most individual households”

“The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.”

“Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;
Right hath a power that makes thee strong.
The night is dark, but light is near;
The grief is short, the joy is long.”

“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”

“Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty …”

“In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.”