The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

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.

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.

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.

you wanted it all to make senseand you wanted the most complicated answer, but the answer is simple.just be.

You may want to sit with the following question: How much am I identifying with a job title rather than what I intuitively know is my work to share with the world?

We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

I feel like I am what I am.