Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

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

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.

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

The mind of man is capable of anything.

Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.