Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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.

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

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

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