Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.