they go the fairest way to Heaven that would serve God without a Hell - Thomas Browne

In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the church is my text; where that speaks, 'tis but my comment; where there is a joint silence of both, I borrow not the rules of my religion from Rome or Geneva, but the dictates of my own reason.

for by compassion we make anothers misery our own, and so by relieving them, we relieve our selves also.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosme, and carries the whole world about him