If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

We read the future by the past.

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.