Booker T. Washington: “I have taken pains to go to the bottom of things and get facts, in a cold, business-like manner.”

The thing in my life which brings me the keenest regret is that my work in connection with public affairs keeps me for so much of the time away from my family, where, of all places in the world, I delight to be.

No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward.

When I have an unusually difficult question to decide—one that appeals strongly to the emotions—I find it a safe rule to sleep over it for a night, or to wait until I have had an opportunity to talk it over with my wife and friends.

How shall we make the mansion on yon Beacon Street feel and see the need of the spirits in the lowliest cabin in Alabama cotton-fields or Louisiana sugar-bottoms?