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 sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

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.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.