To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life.

We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.