That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

Thought greets thought over the widest gulfs of time with unerring freemasonry.

He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

Goodwill is contagious; once a definite start has been made in a pure and disinterested spirit, goodwill will permeate the world, and right human relations will be rapidly established. p. 749/52.

Be universal love- radiating towards no one object or person in particular but, like the sun, shining on everything in its path.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go further than a genius idea no one gets.

Empathy and the ability to use your imagination should have no limits.

The great ideas are always emerging, to be available to all men and women. And one hope of our lives is the communication of these truths.

Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.

Genius is of no country; her pure ray
Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.

That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.