Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

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.

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

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.