The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppres…

- Olive Schreiner

The surest sign of fitness is success.

- Olive Schreiner

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite …

- Olive Schreiner

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

- Olive Schreiner

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but wh…

- Olive Schreiner

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

- Olive Schreiner

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

- Olive Schreiner

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

- Olive Schreiner

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

- Olive Schreiner