In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.