There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

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

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.