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

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

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

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.