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

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

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

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

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

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

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

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 advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.

A lot of the U.S. used to be part of Mexico, including Arizona. But they're a bit touchy about that right now.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.

When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes.

If it ain't tubes, we don't do it.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.