“In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man”

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

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”

“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.”

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”

“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.”

“The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.”