The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.