All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.

I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

We live as we dream - alone.

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

There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.