Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?