Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo' life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

Wit, by itself, is of little account. It becomes a moment only when grounded on wisdom.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.