Men Have Never Been Individually Self-sufficient.

I Thank Heaven I Have Often Had It In My Power To Give Help And Relief, And This Is Still My Greatest Pleasure. If I Could Choose My Sphere Of Action Now, It Would Be That Of The Most Simple And Direct Efforts Of This Kind.

Change What Cannot Be Accepted And Accept What Cannot Be Changed.

Man Is Endowed By Nature With Organic Relations To His Fellow Men; And Natural Impulse Prompts Him To Consider The Needs Of Others Even When They Compete With His Own.

It Is My Strong Conviction That A Realist Conception Of Human Nature Should Be Made A Servant Of An Ethic Of Progressive Justice And Should Not Be Made Into A Bastion Of Conservatism, Particularly A Conservatism Which Defends Unjust Privileges.

Reason Is Not The Sole Basis Of Moral Virtue In Man. His Social Impulses Are More Deeply Rooted Than His Rational Life.