All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wond...er is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all free...ly consent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book--a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which to...ld its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not b...e able to stand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed..., but like a house to stand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing.... Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »