Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.

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

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