Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

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

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

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.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

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.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.