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

In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

But even our pleasures are calculated and business like. We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. Our salons are often little better than bazaars of fashion.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

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.

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