It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.
I smoke a brown pipe like the breast of a little negress.
All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.
What will survive of us is love.
Conversation is our account of ourselves. . . Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts. . . It is the laboratory of the student.