"I believe that the soul of man is immortal, and that it will live forever."

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think are the works of God with a sentiment of profoundest reverence, as the highest manifestations of the…"

"I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things."

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."

"The universe is a sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."