It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

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

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".

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

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.