Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice

I have a trunk containing continents.

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.

It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.

What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.