In all my teaching I have watched carefully the influence of the tooth-brush, and I am convinced that there are few single agencies of civilization t… - Booker T. Washington

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

The ministry was the profession that suffered most — and still suffers, though there has been great improvement — on account of not only ignorant but in many cases immoral men who claimed that they were “called to preach.