Charity sees the need not the cause.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the houses rain down, this is what scatters armies!

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.