Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld) Quotes

“Common sense is not cowardice.”

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

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

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

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

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

″‘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!”