I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.