Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

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.