Quotes by

Olive Schreiner

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead. – Olive Schreiner

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. – Olive Schreiner

Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. – Olive Schreiner