David Livingstone

“ I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. A poor, poor imitation I am or wish to be. In this service I hope to live, in it I wish to die.
I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remeber the great sacrifice which He made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.
A hard bed might be a greater sacrifice to one than sleeping on the ground to another. ”

“ The new-fangled coal-scuttle helmets serve chiefly for the frightening away of game when you want them to stand.
She had a profusion of iron rings on her ankles, to which were attached little pieces of sheet-iron, to enable her to make a tinkling as she walked in her mincing African style. The same thing is thought pretty by our own dragoons in walking jauntily.
The first smile of an infant with its toothless gums is one of the pleasantest sights in nature. It is innocence claiming kinship, and asking to be loved in its helplessness Nature is full of enjoyment. ”

“ It is something to be a follower, however feeble, in the wake of the great Teacher and only model missionary that ever appeared among men.
Forbid it that we should ever consider the holding of a commission from the King of Kings a sacrifice, so long as men esteem the service of an earthly sovereign an honour. ”