I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

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

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.