We are a race of women that of old knew no fear and feared no death, and lived great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen on evil and degenerate times, there moves in us yet the throb of the old blood.

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?

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

When the curtain falls no one is ready

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.