A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

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

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.

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.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.