The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

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

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

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