It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

There is one mind common to all individual men

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.