One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.