I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.