“Man follows only phantoms.”

“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”

“There is only one man to follow me who has genius, and that is Edward German.”

“If religion is only human, and its form is man’s form, it follows that everything in religion is true.”

“He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.”

“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”

“The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.”

“It is — last stage of all —
When we are frozen up within, and quite
The phantom of ourselves,
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost
Which blamed the living man.”

“But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.”

“Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of Religion, that we shall discover Truth, Reason, and Morality. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from the remedies which nature prescribes; far from curing, it only aggravates, multiplies, and perpetuates them.”