An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the….

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it..

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 th….

Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to ….

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 saint is the m….

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

The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hea….

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

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a….

May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap by others, and far wo….

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

By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows o….

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious a….

The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against wh….

When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So do….

As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential m….

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differen….

We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest tho….

There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations ….

It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and ….

It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the ….