It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

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

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.