The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

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

I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.

If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.