The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

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

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

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