[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in a….

Success feeds confidence..

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work.

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down..

If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse..

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are burried deep-leave it anyway except ….

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way excep….

We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and how a craft can be master of an element. ….

I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the ea….

the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things..

Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberles….

There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from ….

I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, woul….

Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he w….

Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you ….

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity.

There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa..

Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will..

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents..

Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women..

To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopula….