Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly,… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings... — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation. — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
“When it is said that it was done to please a woman, there ought perhaps to be enough to explain anything; for what a… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards. — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
