"Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed"

"In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action."

"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."

"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."

"Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate."

"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."

"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."