God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.