The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

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

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

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

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.

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