Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.