There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.