Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.