“Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.”

“‎Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.”

“There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.”

“Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.”

“Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom... there is no lower deep for him.”

“At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.”

“No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.”