The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.