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The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

The spectacle of effort is what awakens and sustains our own effort.

the great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy

It is notorious that a single successful effort of moral volition, such as saying 'no' to some habitual temptation, or performing some courageous act, will launch a man on a higher level of energy for days and weeks, will give him a new range of power.

We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.

The normal opener of deeper and deeper levels of energy is the will.

The transformation, moreover, is a chronic one: the new level of energy becomes permanent.

Excitements, ideas, and efforts, in a word, are what carry us over the dam.

The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idler.

We live subject to arrest by degrees of fatigue which we have come only from habit to obey.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming fire.

Slavery cannot bear one ray of light, or the slightest criticism.

But a man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body.

Nature does not give us our livelihood gratis; we must win it by toil of some sort or degree.

The vitality of civil and political institutions in our society depends on free discussion.

The right to speak freely and to promote diversity of ideas and programs is therefore one of the chief distinctions that sets us apart from totalitarian regimes.

Free speech has occupied an exalted position because of the high service it has given our society.

One's beliefs have long been thought to be sanctuaries which government could not invade.

The first duty of law is to keep sound the society it serves.

Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.

With such aids and an honest purpose to do whatever is right, I hope to execute diligently, impartially, and for the best interests of the country the manifold duties devolved upon me.

By holding the representative responsible only to the people, and exempting him from all other influences, we elevate the character of the constituent and quicken his sense of responsibility to his country.