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.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!