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

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

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

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.