“Listen to the fools reproach! it is a kingly title!”
“As the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers.”
“He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.”
“The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.”
“The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet; watch the roots, the lion, the tyger, the horse, the elephant, watch the fruits.”
“The selfish smiling fool. & the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise. that they may be a rod.”
“Let man wear the fell of the lion. woman the fleece of the sheep.”
“The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.”
“A dead body, revenges not injuries.”
“Bring out number weight & measure in a year of dearth.”
“All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap.”
“Dip him in the river who loves water.”
“Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.”
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
“Perhaps I did not succumb to ideology because I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness.”
“I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
“I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”
“To restore silence is the role of objects.”
“I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.”