In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

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

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

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

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