You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.- Felix Adler
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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.
The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
