If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.