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

Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

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

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

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

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.