"Education is not a thing apart from life — not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work." - Booker T. Washington

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. It is more important that we be prepared for voting than that we vote, more important that we be prepared to hold office than that we hold office, more important that we be prepared for the highest recognition than that we be recognized.