Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest – the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman’s family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages.

On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.