The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money..

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and f….

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo..

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten..

We white people think that we know everything..

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man..

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his han….

Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to lands whither we maynot hope to f….

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought..

As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased t….

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals..

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and natural….

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation..

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt..

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it..

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Stran….

It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, t….

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last..

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me..

Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee..

Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!.