Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

Right is right only when entire.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

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