The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.