Booker T. Washington: “I did find, though, that which no costly building and apparatus can supply,—hundreds of hungry, earnest souls who wanted…”

In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.

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.

Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.

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.