...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.

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

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.

You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

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

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.