I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.