“The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.”

“No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.”

“Every man makes a god of his own desire”

“Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.”

“Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.”

“All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.”

“The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.”