The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.

Your mission in life is to determine what You believe—not to accept what someone else tells you to believe.

All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is a subtle form of disease.

A smile says more than the way you laughPetra Hermans

Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.