When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.