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.

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

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.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

It is a heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in it