I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.