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The progress of society rests upon the increasing collectivity of human labor.

The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.

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

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

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

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.

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

If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.

How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.

One may be happy to a good degree, I think, in a faithful friend, a moderate fortune, and a retired life; further than this I know nothing to wish; but if there be anything beyond it, I wish it you.

in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

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

Each time you happen to me all over again.

A boy of spirit may acquire a previous and practical experience of the world; and his playfellows may be the future friends of his heart or his interest.

we never could differ about the worth and comfort of domestic affection

Husband, lover, nurse--not one of these, has Robert been to me, but all three together.

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.

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.

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

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.