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Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. ”
The home is the chief school of human virtues. ”
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. ”
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. ”
Justice delayed is justice denied. ”
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. ”
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. ”
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. ”
The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. ”
A fool must now and then be right, by chance. ”