...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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

Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.