The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.