We are prisoners of ideas.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Society is a hospital of incurables.
Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
