The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

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

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

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

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.

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

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.