"No one knows what the elephant ate to make it so big."

"De Bruyn had tried to fit her feet into a pair of his late wife's shoes, but the foot of a female slave who has walke…"

"A lonely man, Quaque, too. He despises his own people for the heathens that they are. He is really a kind of black En…"

"He sees every female slave as just a vagina on two legs, she thought bitterly, not for the first time."

"Curiosity is unbecoming in the female sex. This girl's curiosity surely comes from your teaching her to read. An abil…"

"If you examine the weapons closely you will soon discern the reason. Warfare is endemic on this part of the coast. Mo…"

"There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere…"

"The buffalo's powerful head darkening the yellow grass, like the lion's imperative roar and the elephant's long, somn…"

"Men are never alone because that which, acknowledged or unacknowledged, dreams through them is always by their side."

"Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril."