An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.