'And since then I have had a business, and a colony, and a mission of my own.

I was a man of the world before I was a Christian; I'm a man of the world still, and I made my mission pay.
No good ever came of coddling.

A man has to stand up in God's sight and work up to his weight avoirdupois; then I'll talk to him, but not before.

I gave these beggars what they wanted: a judge in Israel, the bearer of the sword and scourge; I was making a new people here; and behold, the angel of the Lord smote them and they were not!' With the very uttering of the words, which were accompanied by a gesture, they came forth out of the porch of the palm wood by the margin of the sea and full in front of the sun which was near setting.

Before them the surf broke slowly.