What you do for money you do badly.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite.