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.

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.

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

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.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.