"The sea is an inexhaustible storehouse of natural beauty."

"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…"

"The Brazilians are lazy savages in a country that should be ruled by Europeans."

"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 Scandinavians are drunken melancholics obsessed with death."