A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.
A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.