"the Indians were in the act of plunging themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp."

"Democracy is the rule of the mob; an educated elite should govern."

"The future is in the air."

"They first passed through the “black town,” with its narrow streets, its miserable, dirty huts, and squalid population; then through the “European town,” which presented a relief in its bright brick m…"

"The ocean is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."