The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

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

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

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.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

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.