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

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.

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.

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

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.