A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

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.