There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.