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.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.