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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.

Very many people, very many students, who otherwise would succeed, who would go through school creditably, graduating with honours, have failed to succeed because they became discouraged.

You will constantly be surprised to find how little you really know about your work, and how much more somebody else knows about it than you do.

Make up your minds that you are going to overcome every discouragement, and that you are not going to let any discouragement overcome you.

Any one can seek a job, but it requires a person of rare ability to create a job.

If we would be great, and good, and useful, we must pay the price. And remember that when we get down to the fundamental principles of truth, nature draws no colour line.

The men you see spending most of their time looking for higher and more lucrative positions are, nine times out of ten, men who have made worthless failures in other places.

There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.

Your life will be wasted if you go away from here and have not learned that the greatest lesson of all is the lesson of brotherly love, of usefulness and of charity.

We cannot get upon our feet, as a people, until we learn the saving habit; until we learn to save every nickel, every dime and every dollar that we can spare.

The point is, that we want to be constantly on the lookout for ways of improving whatever work we are engaged in, whether that work be milking cows or doing something else.

I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.

There is a vast difference between working and being worked.

There is an indescribable something about work with the hands that tends to develop a student's mind.

No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.

Our ability to make the world better depends entirely upon our ability to use every opportunity to make ourselves better.

There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights.

Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil.

The suspension of one man's dividends is the suspension of another man's pay envelope.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together.

The Government can not successfully insure prosperity or fix prices by legislative fiat.

The whole theory of our institutions is based on the liberty and independence of the individual.

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.