The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

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.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

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

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.