Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

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.

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.