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" Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English. "

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" Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one. "

" It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it. "

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" Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. "

" A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth. "

" As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair. "

" Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. "

" A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. "

" Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. "

" What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life? "

" Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other. "

" Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best. "

" In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless. "

" Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand. "

" Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting! "

" Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! "

" It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words. "

" If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence. "

" Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance. "

" Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets. "

" When one has taken root, one puts out branches. "

" The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. "

" One's native land! There should one live! There die! "

" The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin. "

" Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat. "

" The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth. "

" The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? "

" When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey. "

" I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. "