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

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!