The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

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.

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

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.