There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

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.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.