“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”

“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”

“I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.”

“Man will do MANY things to get himself loved. Man will do ALL things to get himself envied.”

“The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.”

“Jim he couldn't see no sense in the most of it, but he allowed we was white folks and knowed better than him;”

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.”