Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

People who serve you without love get even behind your back.

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest.

When I give, I give myself.

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures