How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
Olive SchreinerEverything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
Olive SchreinerThe troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
Olive Schreiner