Occupation: Educator Birth: April 5, 1856 Death: November 14, 1915
I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the oth….
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others..
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him..
We must reinforce argument with results..
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him..
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness..
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up..
My whole life has largely been one of surprises..
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character..
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which ca….
I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should….
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up….
If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America ….
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery..
Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing….
The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power a….