The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.