For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.

Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger

Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room—a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief; pitch-black and glabrous as a whale's back and burdened with all the passions of the tides, the memory of voyages beyond counting, the joys, the humiliations: the sea was screaming.

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.