The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.
Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
No damn man kills me and lives.
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.