Olive Schreiner

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

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

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 when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. A

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

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

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.