Booker T. Washington: “If you cannot learn to think, why, you will be of no use to yourself or anybody else.”

This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

The more I come into contact with wealthy people, the more I believe that they are growing in the direction of looking upon their money simply as an instrument which God has placed in their hand for doing good with.

By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.