I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly. - H. Rider Haggard

Human nature does not change, Allan, and wine and women are ancient snares.

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

After spending a week in Cape Town, finding that they overcharged me at the hotel, and having seen everything there was to see, including the botanical gardens, which seem to me likely to confer a great benefit on the country, and the new Houses of Parliament, which I expect will do nothing of the sort, I determined to go back to Natal.