The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Altogether too many sheep

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.