Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.