I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

I like coffee exceedingly.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.