As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.

Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.