Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

One must travel, to learn.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.