Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?