Time touches all things with a destroying hand.

- Charles W. Chesnutt

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

- Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

- Charles W. Chesnutt

Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up w…

- Charles W. Chesnutt

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

- Charles W. Chesnutt

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures unti…

- Charles W. Chesnutt

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

- Charles W. Chesnutt

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

- Charles W. Chesnutt

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

- Charles W. Chesnutt