Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

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.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

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.

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