Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we should not see such tenacious adherence to what men deem the opinions and doctrines of Christ while at the same time in every day practise is exhibited anything but a likeness to Christ.

Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.