There is no slavery but ignorance.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, - blown and flared by passion's storm, - and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.