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

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

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.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.