Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

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

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