Booker T. Washington: “I want to see you let it shine out, even at the very ends of your fingers, that you are doing your best in everything.”

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

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

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

We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.