Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . . He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. . . . he simply worked, inspiring the young, rebuking the old, helping the weak, guiding the strong.

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

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.