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

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?

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.

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.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

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

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.