In Search of the Okapi: A Story of Adventure in Central Africa

“I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.””

— Ernest Glanville

“All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was - a woman.””

— Ernest Glanville

“Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.””

— Ernest Glanville

“There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.””

— Ernest Glanville

“and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was”

— Ernest Glanville

“...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.””

— Ernest Glanville

“And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate...””

— Ernest Glanville

“Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.””

— Ernest Glanville

“There is nothing like the silence and loneliness of night to bring dark shadows over the brightest mind.””

— Ernest Glanville