We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

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

Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Character is power.

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.