We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

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

Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done.

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.