White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you …

Les filles elevees comme vous l'avez ete, dans la contrainte et les pratiques religieuses, ont soif de la liberte, desirent le bonheur, et le bonheur dont elle…

The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Phar…

I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true. This might earn me some enemies, but in some ways the…

Remember me affectionately to good Dr. Price and to the honest heretic Dr. Priestly. I do not call him honest by way of distinction; for I think all the hereti…