"Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition – of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can."

"The white man's burden is to civilize the savage races; it is a duty laid upon us by God."

"The most difficult problems are found in the simplest things."

"The human mind is capable of anything."

"Life is a great chain, and we are all links in it."