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

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

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

Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

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

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.