Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.