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

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

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.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.