We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother.

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.