We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.

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

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

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.

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

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