Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

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

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

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.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.