Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

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?

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.