He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.