One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.