💬 Quotes

"Il y a des passions qui troublent si fort le repos de la vie, que l'on auroit peine à y consentir si l'on avoit plus de raison."

"Si vous jugez sur les apparences en ma faveur, vous serez trompé, car ce n'est point par la vertu que je ne vous aime pas."

"Les passions peuvent me conduire, mais elles ne m'aveugleront pas au point de me faire oublier mon devoir."

"La confiance que vous avez en moi est digne de récompense, et je vous avouerai que vous avez de grands rivaux."

"The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line."

"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."

"He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa; he would not bleach his Negro blood in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world."

"Work, culture, liberty,—all these needed be hammered into shape by this sextet of tireless hands and minds, tapering into one brawny tendency: the freedom of the race."

"Mistress, look at this son of mine, raised up to be a master, up to be a minister of God, up to be a doctor of sick souls."

"Your country? How came it yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. We have brought our three gifts and given them to America."

"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."

"The secret source of Humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven."

"Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

"To us, a fish was a fish, no matter what it looked like; but to the Nevada judge, it was property."

"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way."

"La politique est une pierre meulière qui broie ceux qui ne savent pas s'en servir."

"Le roman est un miroir qui se promène sur une grande route."

"Qu'est-ce que la vie humaine? Un combat continuel entre le devoir et la passion."