Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.