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

Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.

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

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.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.