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.

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

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.

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

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.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.