When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.

The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

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

There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.