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Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

Nothing lasts-not even pain.

Adventure is not outside; it is within.

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.