The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.
It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.
Error moves with quick feet and truth must never be lagging behind.
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.
It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.
Strive to make something of yourself; then strive to make the most of yourself.