It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their destiny. Speech is their ultimate need. We men exist for them only in so far as we can be described.

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.