H. Rider Haggard

"It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man."

"Altogether, a more miserable trio than we were that evening it would have been difficult to discover; and our only comfort lay in the reflection that we were exceedingly fortunate to be there to feel …"

"Then the irony of the situation forced itself upon me. There around us lay treasures enough to pay off a moderate national debt, or to build a fleet of ironclads, and yet we would have bartered them a…"

"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 plate and there remain unalterably fixed."

"For what man is there who does not prize that gift most rare and beautiful, that one perfect thing which no gold can buy – a woman's unfeigned love?"

"For he was a merciful man, who loved not slaughter, although his fierce faith drove him from war to war."

"On, on we went, till at last the east began to blush like the cheek of a girl. Then there came faint rays of primrose light, that changed presently to golden bars, through which the dawn glided out ac…"

"How strange a thing is a love of woman, that is so small in the beginning and in its ends so great! For when the Invisible conceived the order of universe He set this seed of woman's love within its p…"