There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

The guy that designed girls' volleyball uniforms definitely never had daughters.

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

Novel writing is solitary work.

I don't - I don't like that style, myself. I never did like Elvis's singing, but there was millions that did.

Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.