Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

One must make one's own mistakes

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.