A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

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.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

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