You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

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

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.