The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I felt a perfectly natural desire to have a good, long, unprejudiced look at the passengers at a time when they should be free from self-consciousness—which is at breakfast, when such a moment occurs in the lives of human beings at all.

I do not know a spot on the globe which so much astonishes and delights upon first arrival as Madeira