Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand and whose attitude towards me we always uncertain and often hostile? It was this: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world".

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose heart is in the right place is that the mind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resources, there is greater presence of mind.

May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.

I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere-provided it be forward.

Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.