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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

Thus even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more impersonal every day.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.

We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.

Let us measure what we will do for others by what they will do for themselves.

We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint, but bow to the will of Providence, determined still to do our best to the last.

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion

With all its defects, delays and inconveniences, men have discovered no technique for long preserving free government except that the Executive be under the law, and that the law be made by parliamentary deliberations.

While the Constitution diffuses power the better to secure liberty, it also contemplates that practice will integrate the dispersed powers into a workable government.

Presidential powers are not fixed but fluctuate, depending upon their disjunction or conjunction with those of Congress.

All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Before those who loved him, his memory shines like a reproach; they honour him for silent lessons; they cherish his example; and in what remains before them of their toil, fear to be unworthy of the dead.

Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people.

neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with the equal protection principle when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature -- equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities

"Inherent differences" between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual's opportunity.