Never test another man by your own weakness.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality