Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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.
I never liked the atmosphere of Washington. I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom
This planet has rejuvenated itself over and over again. Its species are just witnesses. [Earth] is going to reclaim itself once it tires of us. And all that will be left are the bones.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.