"Be as beneficent as the sun or..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”

“There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.”

“Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.”

“They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.”

“Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.”

“He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.”

“Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.”

“Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their sweat which is to earn all the expenses of the war, and their blood which is to flow in expiation of the causes of it.”

“Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever.”