Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

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.