Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

Success always leaves footprints.

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.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

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.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.