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Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”

Work is love made visible.

Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

We classify too much and enjoy too little.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

The concepts of "majority" and "minority" necessarily reflect temporary arrangements and political judgments.

The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color.

It is not always recognized that the work itself is a great educator, and that acute cleverness in the line of work to which he is fitted comes to the worker.

Pride in one's work is aroused as soon as work is functionalized. The moment a man has something to do that he likes to do, and can do well, he takes pride in it.

The observed worker should be made to realize the purpose and importance of the measurement.

These possibilities of mental development are still further increased when the man makes his own records. This leads to closer attention, to more interest in the work, and to a realization of the man as to what the record really means, and what value it represents.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.