Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

A Departure, the last professional sight of land, is always good, or at least good enough. For, even if the weather be thick, it does not matter much to a ship having all the open sea before her bows.

It's a long time since God has done anything for the people.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

To slay, to love—the greatest enterprises of life upon a man! And I have no experience of either.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.