It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.