What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.
Unless we can find a way out of this accursed charnel-house before long, I think that we shall add to its company, I said, staring round me.
To the young, indeed, death is sometimes welcome, for the young can feel. They love and suffer, and it wrings them to see their beloved pass into the land of shadows.
Thus, then, I too became a dreamer with only one longing, the longing for wisdom, for that spirit touch which should open my eyes and enable me to see.
There are two things in the world, as I have found out, which cannot be prevented: you cannot keep a Zulu from fighting, or a sailor from falling in love upon the slightest provocation!
Then with a single movement he slipped off the 'moocha' or girdle round his middle, and stood naked before us.
Then he prayed for themselves and all who were dear to them, and lastly, that light might be swiftly granted to Dirk in his present difficulty. No, not quite lastly, for he ended with a petition that...
The fool! I broke in—the fool! Thou callest him great; but how can the man be truly great who has no strength to stand against a woman's wiles? Cæsar, with the world hanging on his word! Cæsar, at who...
Thank Heaven, here you are, Quatermain! I can't quite make out what Ignosi wants to do. It seems that though we have beaten off the attack, Twala is now receiving large reinforcements, and is showing...
Second reason: Because I am laid up here at Durban with the pain in my left leg. Ever since that confounded lion got hold of me I have been liable to this trouble, and being rather bad just now, it ma...
Presently Good came up to Sir Henry and myself. Good-bye, you fellows, he said; I am off with the right wing according to orders; and so I have come to shake hands, in case we should not meet again,...
Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
Now, I whispered. Boom! boom! boom! went the three heavy rifles, and down came Sir Henry's elephant dead as a hammer, shot right through the heart.
Love is the law of life, broke in Leo; without love there is no life. I seek love that I may live. I believe that all these things are ordained to an end which we do not know. Fate draws me on—I fulfi...
Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the Hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in winter;...
It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it.
In a certain class of uneducated mind foresight is often interpreted as guilty knowledge.
I was born a gentleman, though I have been nothing but a poor travelling trader and hunter all my life. Whether I have remained so I known not, you must judge of that. Heaven knows I've tried.
I make no apology for this digression, especially as this is an introduction which all young people and those who never like to think (and it is a bad habit) will naturally skip. It seems to me very d...
I made no answer, nor did she seem to expect any, for she went on at once—Nay, bide here and let us have done with all sad and solemn thoughts. We three will sup together as of old, and for awhile for...