"History may not repeat, but it often..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.”

“The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.”

“In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.”

“Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.”

“I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.”

“History is not history unless it is the truth.”

“The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.”

“All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.”

“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.”