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The most serious effect upon the poor comes when dependence upon the charitable society is substituted for the natural outgoing of human love and sympathy, which, happily, we all possess in some degree.

In spite of failures, cooperative schemes went on, some of the same men appearing in one after another with irrepressible optimism.

Huxley declares that the sense of uselessness is the severest shock which the human system can sustain, and that if persistently sustained, it results in atrophy of function.

Such a young person persistently believes that behind all suffering, behind sin and want, must lie redeeming magnanimity.

These young people have had advantages of college, of European travel, and of economic study, but they are sustaining this shock of inaction.

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.

Our young people feel nervously the need of putting theory into action, and respond quickly to the Settlement form of activity.

She is besotted with innocent little ambitions, and does not understand this apparent waste of herself, this elaborate preparation, if no work is provided for her.

Keenly conscious of the social confusion all about us and the hard economic struggle, we at times believed that the very struggle itself might become a source of strength.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.

A President may sense and proclaim that new spirit, but only a people can provide it.

Politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.

We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.

We will lead not merely by the example of our power but by the power of our example.

I will give my all in your service thinking not of power, but of possibilities.

The right to dissent peaceably, within the guardrails of our Republic, is perhaps our nation's greatest strength.

There are some days when we need a hand. There are other days when we're called on to lend one.

The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people.

In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.

Can authority be more amiable and respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people?

It is their power and majesty that is reflected, and only for their good, in every legitimate government, under whatever form it may appear.