Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.