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The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

We make this demand, not for our own sakes alone, but for the succour of the race.

All sincere and earnest search after truth, even where it fails to reach it, yet, often comes so near to it, that other minds more happily situated may be led, by pointing out its very limitations and errors, to obtain a larger view.

No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of his mind, and yet make his life a failure.

It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.

This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is absolutely true.

For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.

We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

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

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

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

Such biographies increase a man's self-reliance by demonstrating what men can be, and what they can do; fortifying his hopes and elevating his aims in life.

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

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.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

You are to become a creator, not a competitor.

You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which will be most congenial and pleasant.

Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.

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

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.

These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it.