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.

I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.