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

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

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.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.