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The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

For equal work equally well performed by a man and by a woman, it is ordained that the woman on the ground of her sex alone shall receive a less recompense.

Free trade in labour and equality of training, intellectual or physical, is essential if the organic aptitudes of a sex or class are to be determined.

Give us labour and the training which fits for labour! We demand this, not for ourselves alone, but for the race.

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.

The past material conditions of life have gone for ever; no will of man can recall them.

We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less.

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

Success is the child of two very plain parents--punctuality and accuracy.

The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be.

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

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best

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 American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

Above all, he must guard and you must guard him against indolence. Make him a strenuous man. I had to force myself into being strenuous as you know--had always an inclination to be idle.

Nothing can be more certain than that the character can only be sustained and strengthened by its own energetic action.

Work is the law of our being--the living principle that carries men and nations onward.

Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Labour is not only a necessity and a duty, but a blessing: only the idler feels it to be a curse.

The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful.

Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.

Time should not be allowed to pass without yielding fruits, in the form of something learnt worthy of being known, some good principle cultivated, or some good habit strengthened.

Industry enables men to earn their living; it should also enable them to learn to live.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past.

In this life we get nothing save by effort.