Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

An American a Negro... two souls two thoughts two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

One ever feels his twoness - an American a Negro two souls two thoughts two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.