Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

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.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

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