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

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

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.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

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

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

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.