The rich are always afraid.

The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.