Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the minds and opinions of the age.
A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820. In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England.... (ed. 1825)