I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

All fates are ‘worse than death’.