But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

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

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

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

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

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