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

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

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.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.