Most men want to achieve great victories ... But I am only looking for a woman. - Bessie Emery Head

If you said no, no, no, and kept your claws in a people's heart, what else did you want but that they should all die?

It was his belief that a witty answer turneth away wrath and that the oil of reason should always be poured on troubled waters.

The country presented overwhelming challenges, he said, not only because the rainfall was poor but because the majority of the people engaged in subsistence farming were using primitive techniques that ruined the land. All this had excited his interest.