"Young men, don't be in a hurry to distiuguish yourselves. Don't feel when you go into a strange community, that it is…"

"Whatever you are in the future, young ladies and gentlemen, will depend largely upon your conceptions of life, its du…"

"The development of an individual will invariably be in the direction of his ideal, and will partake largely of the na…"

"The pugilist, whose highest ambition is to pound and bruise human flesh, and bear off from the prize-ring the victory…"

"Let us not, however, deceive ourselves with the thought that vaulting ambition, that lust for power and place is a di…"

"In these days of ours there is an almost irresistible impulse towards wealth, an indescribable passion to grasp and c…"

"Neither the black boy nor the white will ever be educated in the best and broadest sense of the term who seeks an edu…"

"A large proportion of the offices in this vast country is not held by the best, most learned and most cultivated men,…"

"The place-seeker will resort to methods from which self-respecting men would shrink with as much aversion as the anci…"

"Character is eternal; all other things are transient and fleeting. No ideal, perishable in itself, is worth striving …"