How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

Youth is a blunder, Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human, they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

The miracle is not that we do this work but that we are happy to do it.