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.

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

Success always leaves footprints.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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.

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

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