Booker T. Washington: “Show that education has only deepened your interest in such things.”

These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.

I have always looked upon fame as something to be used in accomplishing good.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.