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

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded

The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous. Nothing could divert them from the regular and faithful performace of the pieties enjoined by the Church.

No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any