It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.