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.

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

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

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

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

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.