A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it . . .

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Are you complete in yourself? [The root] answers, "No, my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves and I shall die." So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

If this boy passes the examinations he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education

[Caprio is chief judge of the Providence Municipal Court and chairman of the state Board of Governors for Higher Education. He also is an Italian-American, whose father came to United States from Italy.] We have more immigrants in the United States now than at any point in history, ... We need to reach out and lend a helping hand to this wave of immigrants from all nationalities.

The facilities are magnificent, the campus is beautiful - I even like living four days a week in Providence, which I never thought I was going to do,