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

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

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

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.

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

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