"In fact, the anger of one of the children on the island with an expression like 'What else will happen to us if this Black person becomes our leader in the future!' also bothered me."

"The French are the only truly civilized race in Europe; all others are barbarians in comparison."

"America is a land of money-grubbers without culture or refinement."

"The Poles are romantic fools who will never regain their independence."

"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…"