Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.