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

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

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

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.

Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

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