Frances Wright : (3)

" And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind. " - Frances Wright

" A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. " - Frances Wright

" The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them. " - Frances Wright