Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.