"To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force."

"Men will fight for superstition as quickly as for the living truth—even more so, since superstition is intangible and cannot be reached."

"Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel, the more truth we can comprehend."

"All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final."

"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."