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

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.