The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

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.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.