Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

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

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.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.