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

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

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

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

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.

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