H. Rider Haggard Quotes

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.

Surely my lord will not hide his beautiful white legs!" exclaimed Infadoos regretfully. But Good persisted, and once only did the Kukuana people get the chance of seeing his beautiful legs again. Good is a very modest man. Henceforward they had to satisfy their aesthetic longings with his one whisker, his transparent eye, and his movable teeth.