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" 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. "

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" He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. "

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

" With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. "

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

" To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical. "

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

" 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. "

" The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered. "

" In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them. "

" Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. "

" On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! "

" We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. "

" 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. "

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

" Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself? "

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

" The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? "

" 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. "

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

" We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. "

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

" Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand. "