“Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.”

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

All socialism involves slavery.

Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.

A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.

When you judge others, look at yourself – You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn’t judge you. Who are you to judge?

This Old Testament – containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality – is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy – if there were anyone to be blasphemed – blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.

The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.

Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.

Faith is giving the divine a chance to act.