The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest to all the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

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.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

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

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