There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.

Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

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

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.