You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.

You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.