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.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

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

The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

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.