Jock of the Bushveld Quotes

″‘Distant hills are always green,’ and the best gold further on.”

“How the little things that mark a new departure stamp themselves indelibly on the memory!”

“Common sense is not cowardice.”

“They still laughed at his ridiculous dignity; and they loved to tease him to see him stiffen with rage and hear his choky little growls; but they liked his independence and admired his tremendous pluck.”

“Of the people who live lonely lives, on the veld or elsewhere, few do so of their own free choice.”

“So they respected his name when he got one. And his name was ‘Jock’.”

″...fortune holds some gifts in store for those who try;”

“The little child that lies hidden in us all reached out- as in the dark- for a hand to hold; and there was none.”

“It is well to pitch one’s expectations low, and so stave off disappointment.”

“Jock had many things to learn besides the lessons he got from me- the lessons of experience which nobody could teach him.”