One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

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

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.