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Our attempts to banish this importunate duty will only make it return upon us again and again, and every time in a shape more unpleasant than the former.

Baffled, discountenanced, subdued, discredited, as the cause of justice and humanity is, it will be only the dearer to me.

The Revolution was made to preserve our ancient indisputable laws and liberties, and that ancient constitution of government which is our only security for law and liberty.

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.

A man's life does not develop rightly without it, and what is called an 'improvident marriage' often appears to me a noble, righteous, and prudent act.

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

It has always seemed to me, during many years of active private practice, that the first and constant aim of the family physician should be to diffuse the sanitary knowledge which would enable parents to bring up healthy children.

To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.

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.

After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.

Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

Lastly, and possibly most important, forests make this earth comfortable and beautiful. Next to the soil, they are the most useful and helpful of Nature's agencies.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

Bring now, O Zeus, any difficulty that thou pleasest, for I have means given to me by thee and powers for honoring myself through the things which happen.

No man can rob us of our Will--no man can lord it over that!

To admit failure at this stage was hard, but the facts had to be faced.

Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of Nature in a spirit of humility.

That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things.

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.

A grave responsibility confronts this Court whenever in course of litigation it must reconcile the conflicting claims of liberty and authority.

It is better for those who have almost unlimited power of government in their hands to err on the side of freedom.

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.