The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

There is more done with pens than with swords.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.