Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

Affluence means influence.

There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.