There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.

There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.

There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.