"No Government inspector who valued his skin would venture into the rubber country and send back an honest report. The…"

"Why, yes, of course I wrote all the Arab of Mesopotamia. I've loved the reviews which speak of the practical men who …"

"A poor gentlewoman, doctor, is the worst thing in the world"

"I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies."

"Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women."

"I have nothing to fear… I am the sun, the stars, the pearl, the lion, the light from heaven."

"I shall not allow the pension… to be stopped by force: I shall resign it,"

"It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, …"

"The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from."

"I profess accurately to describe naked Africa—Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse,…"