A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

The world has no room for cowards.

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.