Victoria C. Woodhull: “Will any one pretend that these great enactments can be understood to mean less than the language thereof plainly…”

Verily, verily, I say unto you, this people vaunteth and puffeth itself with knowledge, but wisdom hath surely departed to the lowly ones of earth!

Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.

Religion, clad in its robes “of purple and fine linen,” faring “sumptuously every day,” forgetting that Christ was cradled in a manger, and that His disciples were fishermen, continually cries, as did the “Pharisees and hypocrites” of old…

As the beams reflected from the mountain top are of the sun, and not the mountains, so are these spiritual rays of the spiritual sun, and not of the individual reflecting them, or through whom they may chance to shine.