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.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

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.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

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

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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