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

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

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.

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.

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

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.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.