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

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.

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

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

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