Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
Jane AddamsEven death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.
Jane AddamsWhat 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?
Jane AddamsThe good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane AddamsIt is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.
Jane Addams