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This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.