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.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

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

Success always leaves footprints.

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

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.

By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.