In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

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.

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.

Kisses are the remnants of paradise.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.