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

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

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

There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause, the face of day darkened with the blackness of the crimes perpetrated in its name.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

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