"I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to…"

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

"They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything."

"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, emp…"

"Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substanc…"

"For it is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowle…"

"It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's ju…"

"The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind."

"There is a weird power in a spoken word... And a word carries far — very far — deals destruction through time as the …"

"She said we lied. Poor soul! Well — let's leave it to Chance, whose ally is Time, that cannot be hurried, and whose e…"