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

Language is our largest common medium, and leads on into literature, which is but preserved speech.

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

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.

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.

Economic independence is a relative condition at best.

That any living woman should prefer it to home and husband, to love and motherhood, throws a fierce light on what women must have suffered for lack of freedom before.

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.

As the racial distinction of humanity lies in its social relation, so we find the distinctive gains and losses of humanity to lie also in its social relation. We are more affected by our relation to each other than by our physical environment.

The inevitable trend of human life is toward higher civilization.

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.

Men may die, but the fabrics of our free institutions remain unshaken.

For the fourth time the officer elected by the people and ordained by the Constitution to fill a vacancy so created is called to assume the Executive chair.

The wisdom of our fathers, foreseeing even the most dire possibilities, made sure that the Government should never be imperiled because of the uncertainty of human life.

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.

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

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.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.

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

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear; and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

Resolve to remain as strong, as determined and as highly enthused during the darkest night of adversity as you are during the sunniest day of prosperity.

The more you are and the more you do, the richer your life, the greater your joy.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

Our attempts should be not to extinguish nature, but to repress it; not to stand unmoved at distress, but endeavour to turn every disaster to our own advantage. Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.