The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.