I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

Adoration isn't love.

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.

I can't say I'm sorry to see that the name 'Nigel' is dying out, but I'd be happier if it wasn't being replaced by made-up names out of TV series 'Game Of Thrones.'

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.