While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Children are very fair minded, they really are.

Women and music should not be dated.

You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able to do it, but I don't think I am a policeman for literature. So I tell them, Sweat it out, do your best.

There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a resonable paragraph, at any rate. There was so much else to include, and one must be firm in cutting out details. He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: `The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.'