Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night.

It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.