It is only we ourselves, and our secret, innermost hearts that count.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
In his determination to grasp at the blatant thing, the big success, a determination that pushed him almost inevitably into a certain extravagance of conduct, because it was foreign to his innermost nature, Claude gave himself to the vulgar vanity of the male.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
On the contrary, I'm believing in and clinging to your dear innermost.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim