Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

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

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

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.

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.

When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble.