We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.

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.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

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

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

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

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.