If The Meanest Man In The Republic

The Blessing Which We Associate With A Life Of Refinement And Cultivation Can Be Made Universal And Must Be Made Universal If They Are To Be Permanent.

Our Conceptions Of Morality, As All Our Other Ideas, Pass Through A Course Of Development; The Difficulty Comes In Adjusting Our Conduct, Which Has Become Hardened Into Customs And Habits, To These Changing Moral Conceptions. When This Adjustment Is Not Made, We Suffer From The Strain And Indecision Of Believing One Hypothesis And Acting Upon Another.

The Essence Of Immorality Is The Tendency To Make An Exception Of Myself.

The Worth Of Every Conviction Consists Precisely In The Steadfastness With Which It Is Held.

I Have Come To Believe ... That The Stage May Do More Than Teach, That Much Of Our Current Moral Instruction Will Not Endure The Test Of Being Cast Into A Lifelike Mold, And When Presented In Dramatic Form Will Reveal Itself As Platitudinous And Effete. That Which May Have Sounded Like Righteous Teaching When It Was Remote And Wordy, Will Be Challenged Afresh When It Is Obliged To Simulate Life Itself.