It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

We are all ignorant; just about different things.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.