The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.

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

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

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

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

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 religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state