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Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

The very thing which is now the cause of thy great grief ought to have brought thee tranquillity.

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.

Every man hath two birth-days: two days, at least, in every year, which set him upon revolving the lapse of time, as it affects his mortal duration.

In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel.

My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it.

As the racial distinction of humanity lies in its social relation, so we find the distinctive gains and losses of humanity to lie also in its social relation. We are more affected by our relation to each other than by our physical environment.

The inevitable trend of human life is toward higher civilization.

The progress of society rests upon the increasing collectivity of human labor.

The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.

To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.

An actor, in order to earn approval, is not bound to perform the play from beginning to end; let him only satisfy the audience in whatever act he appears.

In that category before anything else comes old age, to which all wish to attain, and at which all grumble when attained.

This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as it were to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage.

Our first object, then, should be to prevent a breach; our second, to secure that, if it does occur, our friendship should seem to have died a natural rather than a violent death.

Your life will never be a straight path.

This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.

When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work; and this, for a while, is all I can possibly know of it.

Poverty and ignorance are the parents of intemperance, and that vice will never be suppressed until the burdens of life are equally shared by all.