A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

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.

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

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