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

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

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.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

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