Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.