Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.