“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.”
“Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.”
“Going home must be like going to render an account.”
“A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.”
“A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.”
“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”
“Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”
“You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”
“A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.”
“Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.”
“It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.”
“Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.”
“It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.”
“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”
“What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.”
“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
“A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.”
“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love -- and to put its trust in life.”
“Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”
“A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.”
“Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.”
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
“As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.”
“To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.”
“An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.”
“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
“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.”
“There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.”
“Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.”
“A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.”