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

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

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

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.