I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

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

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?

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.