We Have Been So Blinded

If Nature Here Wishes To Make A Mountain, She Runs A Range For Five Hundred Miles; If A Plain, She Levels Eighty; If A Rock, She Tilts Five Thousand Feet Of Strata On End; Our Skies Are Higher And More Intensely Blue; Our Waves Larger Than Others; Our Rivers Fiercer. There Is Nothing Measured, Small Nor Petty In South Africa.

It Is The Swimmer Who First Leaps Into The Frozen Stream Who Is Cut Sharpest By The Ice; Those Who Follow Him Find It Broken, And The Last Find It Gone. It Is The Men Or Women Who First Tread Down The Path Which The Bulk Of Humanity Will Ultimately Follow, Who Must Find Themselves At Last In Solitudes Where The Silence Is Deadly.

The Brain Works Better If The Hand Works Too.

There Was Never A Great Man Who Had Not A Great Mother.

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.