Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

- H. Rider Haggard

Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, …

- H. Rider Haggard

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

- H. Rider Haggard

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all ha…

- H. Rider Haggard

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

- H. Rider Haggard

Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you …

- H. Rider Haggard

There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized pla…

- H. Rider Haggard

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

- H. Rider Haggard

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become…

- H. Rider Haggard