The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.