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

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

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

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

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

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?

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.