That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

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

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.

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

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.