It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
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.
Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.
I don't jump in real life, why would I jump in a photo?
Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.
The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.