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" An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish. "

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" 'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change. "

" In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York! "

" The wisest man may be a blind father. "

" 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. "

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

" When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future. "

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

" The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear. "

" To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe. "

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

" How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! "

" The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery. "

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

" It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain. "

" When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received. "

" 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. "

" The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. "

" Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it. "

" You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense! "

" I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye. "

" Liberty is worth paying for. "

" In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses. "

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

" 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. "

" One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes. "

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

" Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. "

" The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food. "

" 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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" You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. "