The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.
Jane AddamsEven death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.
Jane AddamsOne's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.
Jane AddamsThe cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.
Jane Addams