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

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

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?

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.