I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.

There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one's camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night.