"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven"

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"

"Heaven never helps the men who will not act"

"Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows"

"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven"

"As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved"

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing"

"All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way"

"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information"

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven"

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go"