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Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.

All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and hearing him.

the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing

"Inherent differences" between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual's opportunity.

To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

Think only when you see me, that you see a man who loves you, and is proud and glad that you love him.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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.

The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy.

We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character.

The great crisis must come, or no man has the chance to develop great qualities.

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again

When the world was over run with tyranny the least remove therefrom was a glorious rescue.

The enormous expense of governments has provoked people to think, by making them feel; and when once the veil begins to rend, it admits not of repair.

I cannot believe that at this stage in our history, the American people would ever knowingly support purposeless vengeance.

Desire is a manifestation of power.

Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.

Every fact we learn leads us to the learning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing.

Every person naturally wants to become all that he is capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be.

Every thought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought; consciousness is continually expanding.

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.