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Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

The leading rule for a lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence.

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Ever since then I have had no patience with any school for my race in the South which did not teach its students the dignity of labour.

There is a vast difference between working and being worked.

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

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

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

Economic independence is a relative condition at best.

The basic condition of human life is union; the organic social relation, the interchange of functional service, wherein the individual is most advantaged, not by his own exertions for his own goods, but by the exchange of his exertions with the exertions of others for goods produced by them together.

The progress of society rests upon the increasing collectivity of human labor.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

The style shall be simple and familiar; but style is the image of character; and the habits of correct writing may produce, without labour or design, the appearance of art and study.

But with common sense, self-reliance, and attention to the work in hand, any woman can pursue the medical calling without risk.

There is no menial work in the daily living rightly carried out; that which the last century wrongly permitted is made needless by the machinery of to-day.

The task was likely to be long and strenuous, and an ordered mind and a clear programme were essential if we were to come through without loss of life.

It is neither to do everything yourself nor to appoint a number of people to each duty, but to ensure that each does that duty to which he is appointed.

Let your doubt be to yourself, your decision to them.

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

Good citizens may well claim the protection of good laws and the benign influence of good government, but a claim for office is what the people of a republic should never recognize.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

I have learned already in this office that the difficult decisions always come to this desk.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen, and the contempt of our people for economy and frugality in their personal affairs deplorably saps the strength and sturdiness of our national character.