Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.