Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.