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

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

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.