There is only one universal passion fear.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

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.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.