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.

The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time.

Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done.

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.