“Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”

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

“Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)”

“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.”

“Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.”

“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”

“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”