All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.