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

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

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.

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