There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.