Kim – Rudyard Kipling

“The matter of creeds is like horseflesh. The wise man knows horses are good – that there is a profit to be made from all; and for myself – but that I am a good Sunni and hate the men of Tirah – I could believe the same of all the Faiths. Now manifestly a Kithiawar mare taken from the sands of her birthplace and removed to the west of Bengal founders — nor is even a Balkh stallion … of any account in the great Northern deserts beside the snow-camels I have seen. Therefore I say in my heart the Faiths are like the horses. Each has merit in its own country.”