... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.