Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

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

I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.

Never test another man by your own weakness.