Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

My soul is an entangled knot, upon a liquid vortex wrought by Intellect in the Unseen residing, and thine doth like a convict sit, with marline-spike untwisting it, only to find its knottiness abiding.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It puts me on a far higher place than any politician.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.