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.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.