Booker T. Washington: “From the first, I resolved to make the school a real part of the community in which it was located.”

I pity the man or woman who has never learned to enjoy nature and to get strength and inspiration out of it.

When the Englishman takes you into his heart and friendship, he binds you there as with cords of steel, and I do not believe that there are many other friendships that are so lasting or so satisfactory.

The English servant expects, as a rule, to be nothing but a servant, and so he perfects himself in the art to a degree that no class of servants in America has yet reached.

Somehow I like, as often as possible, to touch nature, not something that is artificial or an imitation, but the real thing.