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.

God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

Soul, what have I to do with you?

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.