She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.