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The man who labors without a definite purpose that is backed up by a definite plan for its attainment, resembles the ship that has lost its rudder.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

All sincere and earnest search after truth, even where it fails to reach it, yet, often comes so near to it, that other minds more happily situated may be led, by pointing out its very limitations and errors, to obtain a larger view.

That even one individual in a society should be debarred from undertaking that form of social toil for which it is most fitted, makes an unnecessary deficit in the general social assets.

We make this demand, not for our own sakes alone, but for the succour of the race.

It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.

Every person who amounts to anything feels within himself a power which is ever pushing him on and urging him to perpetual improvement.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul.

But music never has to depend upon any obvious meaning; it expresses what no words can ever express.

For joy is knowledge in its completeness, it is knowing by our whole being.

For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.

It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.

Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.

This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is absolutely true.

We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.

To accomplish anything excellent, the will must work for catholic and universal ends.

Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

The hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live, so that the longer we can stay among these things so much the more is snatched from inevitable Time.

I know that peace does not come through wishing for it--that there is no substitute for days and even years of patient and prolonged diplomacy.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

Let us measure what we will do for others by what they will do for themselves.

Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

The length of man's life, which is endless to the brave and busy, is scorned by his ambitious thought.