One does what one can, not what one cannot.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.