I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.