Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us. It was on the break-the moon shone on its crest and tipped its foam with light. On it rushed beneath the inky sky, driven by the awful squall behind it.

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.