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.

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

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

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

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.