Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.