"The Portuguese are the Chinese of Europe—backward and superstitious."

"The Italians are a degenerate race living on past glories."

"To be a great man, one must know how to seize the opportunity."

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

"I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen, which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity o…"