Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

[Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity].