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.

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.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.