When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think I heard more and more different kinds of slang during my few weeks' stay in London than in my whole "tenderloin" life in New York. But I suppose the English feel that the language is theirs, and that they may do with it as they please without at the same time allowing that privilege to others.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?