“If, as you hold, the great hulk of the colored people are not yet fit in point of character and influence to hold such positions, it seems to me that it is worth while putting a premium upon the effort among them to achieve the character and standing which will fit them.”

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 92

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Family Life

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Mesillat Yesharim (1738), Introduction

Hays translation
V, 19
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V

A Great Experiment (1941), p. 189
Context: The truth is, I was never a very good Party man. Probably but for the War of 1914, I should have gone on fairly comfortably as a Conservative official. But those four years burnt into me the insufferable conditions of international relations which made war the acknowledged method — indeed, the only fully authorized method — of settling international disputes. Thenceforth, the effort to abolish war seemed to me, and still seems to me, the only political object worth while.

Writers at Work interview (1958)

Address at Illinois College (1881)