It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

His face was filled with broken commandments.