Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.