The edge of a colossal jungle, so dark-green as to be almost black, fringed with white surf, ran straight, like a ruled line, far, far, away along blue sea whose glitter was blurred by a creeping...

Had he been informed by an indisputable authority that the end of the world was to be finally accomplished by a catastrophic disturbance of the atmosphere, he would have assimilated the information...

...as i emerge on deck the ordered arrangement of the stars meets my eye, unclouded, infinitely wearisome. There they are: stars, sun, sea, light, darkness, space, great waters; the formidable Work of...

doomed to be the recipient of confidences...

. . . but in the great demoralization of the land he kept up his appearance. That's backbone.

No eloquence could have been so withering to one's belief in mankind as his final burst of sincerity.

oh youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it!

And at last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and from glowing white changed to a dull red without rays and without heat, as if about to go out suddenly, stricken to death by...

Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.

The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.

He steered for me - I had to look after him, I worried about his deficiencies, and thus a subtle bond had been created, of which I only became aware of when it was suddenly broken. And the intimate...

It was like a weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares.

the men, the women, the children; the old with the young, the decrepit with the lusty-all equal before sleep, death's brother.

In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly with reflected lights resembled an oval patch of night sky flung down into the...

True wisdom, which is not certain of anything in this world of contradictions, would have prevented him from attaining his present position. It would have alarmed his superiors, and done away with his...

And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank

Dark human shapes could be made out in the distance, flitting indistinctly against the gloomy border of the forest

It is a great doctor for sore hearts and sore heads, too, your ship's routine, which I have seen soothe-at least for a time-the most turbulent of spirits. There is health in it, and peace, and...