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

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

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.

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

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

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