I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

every heart has its graveyard.

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.