Booker T. Washington: “We do ourselves no good when we yield to that temptation.”

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.

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

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