"Religious truth is captive in a small number of manuscript books, which guard the common treasure, instead of diffusing it. Let us break the seal which holds the holy things; give wings to the truth t…"

"It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall soon flow in inexhaustible streams the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men!"

"God suffers in the multitude of souls whom the scriptures cannot reach."

"Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them."

"The work of the scribes is doomed to oblivion."