I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.