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.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

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