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

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.