Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.