Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

Knowledge is the seed, intelligence is the stem, understanding is the branch, and wisdom is the fruit.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

We are not hiding things from the American people, but China everyday is conducting business in a way that hides things from their people.

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.

The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.