A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.

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.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

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.