Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
