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We cannot get upon our feet, as a people, until we learn the saving habit; until we learn to save every nickel, every dime and every dollar that we can spare.

There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.

If we would be great, and good, and useful, we must pay the price. And remember that when we get down to the fundamental principles of truth, nature draws no colour line.

Make up your minds that you are going to overcome every discouragement, and that you are not going to let any discouragement overcome you.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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