Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

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

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

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

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.

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