To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.