"A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."

"When we are too much in a hurry, we miss the best things in life."

"The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose."

"The white man has a religion of his own, which he brought to us. We have our own religion. We should not abandon our own for his."

"Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching."