Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

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

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

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.