Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

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

A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.

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

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.

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 had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.