The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.
No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Be good and you'll be lonesome
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.