The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.

The wise warrior avoids the battle.

Forever and always from me to you. My love is pure, my love is true. It is gifted to none other than you.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

There is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish.

It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.

I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.