It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.

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

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

People may be said to resemble the pieces of a puzzle, each unique, yet each essential to bring out a complete picture.