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.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

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

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

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