“He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its strengths or weaknesses.”

“No profit was too small to despise; no loss was too small to abhor.”

“A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.”

“A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.”

“It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.”

“beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.”

“History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.”