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No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.

Our ability to make the world better depends entirely upon our ability to use every opportunity to make ourselves better.

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

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.

War is the province of danger, and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior.

Resolution is an act of courage in single instances, and if it becomes a characteristic trait, it is a habit of the mind.

The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism. A vague glimpse even of an Analytical Engine at length opened out, and I pursued with enthusiasm the shadowy vision.

By the aid of the Mechanical Notation, the Analytical Engine became a reality: for it became susceptible of demonstration.

The question is whether a statute authorizing such proceedings in restraint of publication is consistent with the conception of the liberty of the press as historically conceived and guaranteed.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.

To teach, to rule, to make, to decorate, to distribute,—these are not sex-functions: they are race-functions.

Little by little, very slowly, and with most unjust and cruel opposition, at cost of all life holds most dear, it is being gradually established by many martyrdoms that human work is woman’s as well as man’s.

The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

The Constitution defines the functions and powers of the executive as clearly as those of either of the other two departments of the Government, and he must answer for the just exercise of the discretion it permits and the performance of the duties it imposes.

Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become.

The man who never weakens when things are against him will grow stronger and stronger until all things will delight to be for him.

In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.

And when you fall throughout life—and maybe even tonight after a few too many glasses of champagne—fall forward.

I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

I want to fall… forward. At least I figure that way I’ll see what I’m about to hit.

The point is, every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed. But do you have guts to fail?