I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.
As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
My vocation to preach on paper.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!
America is just so imperative that we have the right justices.
If you tell a kid not to run to a water slide, heshe will walk for 2 steps, then start running again.
My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression