It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.