In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

When a child is born the mother also is born again.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.