“I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.”

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”

“There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.”

“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”

“In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As "fail."”

“Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.”

“If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.”

“How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. There is no candour in a story of early manhood which leaves out of account the home-sickness for nursery morality, the regrets and resolutions of amendment, the black hours which, like zero on the roulette table, turn up with roughly calculable regularity.”

“Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general.”

“Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.”