It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.

Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

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

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

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

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.