Democracy means not "I am as good as you are," but "You are as good as I am."
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.