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At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.

Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism. A vague glimpse even of an Analytical Engine at length opened out, and I pursued with enthusiasm the shadowy vision.

Language is our largest common medium, and leads on into literature, which is but preserved speech.

The basic condition of human life is union; the organic social relation, the interchange of functional service, wherein the individual is most advantaged, not by his own exertions for his own goods, but by the exchange of his exertions with the exertions of others for goods produced by them together.

The inevitable trend of human life is toward higher civilization.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.

Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

The more you are and the more you do, the richer your life, the greater your joy.

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.

So I ask you today: How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?

So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

Your life will never be a straight path.

You’ll never see a U-haul behind a hearse.

At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction: that a nation exists to serve its citizens.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

Our attempts to banish this importunate duty will only make it return upon us again and again, and every time in a shape more unpleasant than the former.

Life is not only short, but uncertain, and art is not only long, but absorbing.

If an idea, I reasoned, were really a valuable one, there must be some way of realising it.

It has always seemed to me, during many years of active private practice, that the first and constant aim of the family physician should be to diffuse the sanitary knowledge which would enable parents to bring up healthy children.

To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.

After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.