Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

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.

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

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.

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

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