I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.
No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.
Geological time is not money.
By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.