I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.