There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

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

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.