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

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

There is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women

There is a vast difference between working and being worked.

There is an indescribable something about work with the hands that tends to develop a student's mind.

There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights.

The whole theory of our institutions is based on the liberty and independence of the individual.

The Government can not successfully insure prosperity or fix prices by legislative fiat.

Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

The suspension of one man's dividends is the suspension of another man's pay envelope.

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together.

Although our intellect always feels itself urged towards clearness and certainty, still our mind often feels itself attracted by uncertainty.

Everything is very simple in War, but the simplest thing is difficult.

Mere intelligence is still not courage, for we often see the cleverest people devoid of resolution.

Resolution is an act of courage in single instances, and if it becomes a characteristic trait, it is a habit of the mind.

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.

There are persons who possess the keenest perception for the most difficult problems, who are also not fearful of responsibility, and yet in cases of difficulty cannot come to a resolution.

By the aid of the Mechanical Notation, the Analytical Engine became a reality: for it became susceptible of demonstration.

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.

Thus the Analytical Engine will possess a library of its own. Every set of cards once made will at any future time reproduce the calculations for which it was first arranged.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.

Moreover, the many dead trunks that stand like skeletons, never fail to give to these primeval woods a character of solemnity, absent in those of countries long civilized.

Sitting down on a block of granite, it was delightful to watch the various insects and birds as they flew past.

This west coast makes me remember with pleasure the free, unbounded plains of Patagonia; yet, with the true spirit of contradiction, I cannot forget how sublime is the silence of the forest.