Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

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

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

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

The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

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