Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.