In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

I have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a realist also. And as that charge too can be made out, let us try to live up to it, at whatever cost, for a change.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks.

The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.