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

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.