J. E. Casely Hayford

To love truth, and to serve under its banner, come what may, that is courage truly, which will endure and stand the test of endless ages.

Unhappy they who raise their hopes upon the shifting sand.

Have pity on my simplicity, for I am but a mortal.

Call me a thinker, a teacher, call me anything that is of the earth, but a god I cannot think that I am one, or can ever be.

Humility becometh well the triumphant.

Love and Light dwelt together in the highest heaven.

Mutual understanding, the true basis of all happy unions.

I do know, that gods are wont to make use of human instruments in approaching men. The Infinite finds expression in the finite, and the ideal is realised in the actual.

We worship that we do know.

No people could despise its own language, customs, and institutions and hope to avoid national death.

It had been felt for a long time by men of light and leading in Fanti-land that the salvation of the people depended upon education; that to educate the youths of the country properly depended upon trained teachers; and that it was the …

Who says he is equal with God? Man is to-day, to-morrow he is not, Iam is from eternity to eternity.

There has never lived a people worth writing about who have not shaped out a destiny for themselves, or carved out their own opportunity.