He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.