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.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.