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

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

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.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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.

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.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.