The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

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

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

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

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.