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

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.