Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually.

Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

Since I found you no more cold nights and no more lonely days. Nothing makes me happier than knowing that I will have and hold you for as long as I live.

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

I never had to worry about divestment because I never invested.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.