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 book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

The harder I work the more I live.