Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

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

You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

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

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.