Lapham’s Quarterly

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Strangers are an endangered species.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.