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Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.

Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people.

"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.

neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with the equal protection principle when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature -- equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities

They meant that public officers should owe their whole service to the Government and to the people.

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.

he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best

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.

By this practice he may obtain the solitude of adversity without its melancholy, its instructions without its censures, and its sensibility without its perturbations.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

An habitual sadness seizes upon the soul, and the faculties are chained to a single object, which can never be contemplated but with hopeless uneasiness.

The time of such a man is always spent in forming schemes, which a change of wind hinders him from executing, his powers fume away in projects and in hope, and the day of action never arrives.

Native deformity cannot be rectified, a dead friend cannot return, and the hours of youth trifled away in folly, or lost in sickness, cannot be restored.

A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it, and what he feels in it.

Great evils are in some cases only to be met by resistance; they cannot be wept down, but must be battled down.

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.

Every man's first duty is, to improve, to educate, and elevate himself--helping forward his brethren at the same time by all reasonable methods.

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