it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her.

When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.