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.

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.