We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.