A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!.

Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy..

Money is a great dignifier..

Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!.

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!.

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of ….

This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perf….

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose..

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted atte….

What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man who might have lived decently and become a fairly ….

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the mo….

We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a….

Only the rich are lonesome..

Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes..

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe..

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core..

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed..

We wear the mask that grins and lies..

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we sm….

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow..