“There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.”

“Not only did the angry villagers hound their monsters to the edge of town, they reproached her for being vulnerable to the torches.”

“Every light can be extinguished. The intellect is a light. Therefore it can, be extinguished.”

“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.”

“Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!”

“In my village, one of our priests says that love between men is a great sin- the other argues that nothing at all is sinful except weak ale, overdone meat, and building a fire in any way but his.”