Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.