I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.