Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.