Felix Adler

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

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

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

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

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

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

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

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.

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

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 and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.