In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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