Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

“I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor”

“he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I…”

“A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew th…”

“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a fo…”