The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

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

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

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

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.