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.

By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.