The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

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.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.