I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.

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

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

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.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.

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.