Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

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.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.