Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.

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

She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.