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

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.