Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
. . . how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it
It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.