Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.

We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

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

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

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.