the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

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.