Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the — Charles W. Chesnutt
There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived. — Charles W. Chesnutt
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards. — Charles W. Chesnutt
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. — Charles W. Chesnutt
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. — Charles W. Chesnutt