“If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.”
“But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?”
“I know some first-class Negroes. I also know some second-rate white people.”
“If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.”
“Admit that there is some level that would make even you call yourself the victim of class war.”
“I guess I thought the strength of my wanting would be enough to make him appear.”