The surest sign of fitness is success.

If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.