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Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.