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An honest man’s pillow is his peace of mind, and when you lay down on the pillow at night, no matter who’s in our bed we all sleep alone.

I’d subscribe to the belief that we’re all destined to have to do the thing we fear the most anyway.

The great law of morality ought to have a national as well as a personal and individual application.

The man who labors without a definite purpose that is backed up by a definite plan for its attainment, resembles the ship that has lost its rudder.

it must be from one man that it receives its institutions at first, and upon one man that all similar reconstruction must depend

We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.

All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul.

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

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.

Let us measure what we will do for others by what they will do for themselves.

It doesn't matter to me any longer how long I live, what matters to me most is how I live.

These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it.

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

Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

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

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.

What is done in business must be well done; for it is better to accomplish perfectly a small amount of work, than to half-do ten times as much.

Failure in any good cause is, however, honourable, whilst success in any bad cause is merely infamous.

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

There is a dignity in the very effort to save with a worthy purpose, even though the attempt should not be crowned with eventual success.

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.

our responsibility is heavy, to ourselves, to the world as it is to-day, and to the generations yet unborn

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us.