Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.
This generation can only reach this generation.
God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.
I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.
I prefer to remain mysterious and have people MAKE their own judgment calls about me than to always have to EXPLAIN who I am and what I’m about.
Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.