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

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.

Your life will never be a straight path.

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

The study of conditions will prove an education in itself and a stimulus to invention.

There is no menial work in the daily living rightly carried out; that which the last century wrongly permitted is made needless by the machinery of to-day.

The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.

Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.

At any rate, we were on the move at last, and if dangers and difficulties lay ahead we could meet and overcome them.

The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.

In place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.

Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

With the first word I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to hope.

Each halt in his progress has been but a pause before a mighty leap forward.

Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.

We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the final reconciliation.

We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.