I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

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

We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone.

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

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

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.