I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

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.