Memoirs

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did. I said I didn't know."

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."

"When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales! I scratch my head with the lightning, and purr myself to sleep with the thunder!"