If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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.

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.