The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means