Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

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

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.