To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

There is only one universal passion fear.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.