Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.