And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

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

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

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Make yourself as happy as possible, and try to make those happy whose lives come in touch with yours. But to attempt to right the wrongs and cease the sufferings of the world in general is a waste of effort.

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.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.