Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".