Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.