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

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

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

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

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

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

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