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

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

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

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.