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.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

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

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

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

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.