It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain... to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still.

As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.

I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.