To be able to forget means sanity.

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.