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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.

The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist.

On this bit of the wild world's stage are theatrical lightning changes of scenes—changes that on most mountains would require ten thousand years or more. It is a place of strange and fleeting landscapes; the earth is ever changing like the sky.

The forest is an eternal mediator between winds and gravity in their never-ending struggle for the possession of the waters.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

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

The movement of the floes was beyond all human control, and there was nothing to be gained by allowing one's mind to struggle with the problems of the future, though it was hard to avoid anxiety at times.

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

Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.

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.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected

There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

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.

Man is only what he becomes--profound truth; but he becomes only what he is, truth still more profound.

To reform one's maxims is nothing: it is but to change the title of the book. To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life.

The evil cannot be cured or remedied by silence as to its existence.

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.