"We may not be the richest country in the world, but we are proud to be the most generous in the world"

"The sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still, — and there was so much sky, more than at sea, more than anywhere else in the world. The plain was there, un…"

"Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existe…"

"A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value."

"It is difficult to analyse the motive that induced me to make those journeys, or the satisfaction I derived from such a life. There was of course the lure of the unknown; there was the constant test o…"