A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.

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

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

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.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

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