An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

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.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.

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