I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was the vilest work of God, and that only a fool would set himself up as a healer of a species that was best exterminated.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself