A Settlement Is Above All A Place

The Good We Secure For Ourselves Is Precarious And Uncertain Until It Is Secured For All Of Us And Incorporated Into Our Common Life.

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.

America's Future Will Be Determined By The Home And The School. The Child Becomes Largely What He Is Taught; Hence We Must Watch What We Teach, And How We Live.

The Lessons Of Great Men And Women Are Lost Unless They Reinforce Upon Our Minds The Highest Demands Which We Make Upon Ourselves; They Are Lost Unless They Drive Our Sluggish Wills Forward In The Direction Of Their Highest Ideas.

Private Beneficence Is Totally Inadequate To Deal With The Vast Numbers Of The City's Disinherited.