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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.

Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends--those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result.

The soul should take care of the body, just as a pilgrim on his way to Mecca takes care of his camel.

Every evening he should examine his heart as to what he has done to see whether he has gained or lost in his spiritual capital.

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

The oath taken in the presence of the people becomes a mutual covenant.

Not from space must I seek my dignity, but from the ruling of my thought.

Your life will be wasted if you go away from here and have not learned that the greatest lesson of all is the lesson of brotherly love, of usefulness and of charity.

The inevitable trend of human life is toward higher civilization.

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.

If I associate not with these people,-- with mankind,-- with whom shall I associate?

If I’m going to fall, I don’t want to fall back on anything, except my faith.

At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction: that a nation exists to serve its citizens.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

as it must be the supreme purpose of all free men, so it must be the dedication of their leaders, to save humanity from preying upon itself

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.

Preeminently, the power of our advocacy reposes in our example; but no example, be it remembered, can be powerful for lasting good, whatever apparent advantages may be gained, which is not based upon eternal principles of right and justice.

Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.