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

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.

If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.