Very few people can afford to be poor.
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.