I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.