Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.