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

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

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

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

" The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations. "

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

" Liberty is worth paying for. "

" You're never rich enough if you can be richer. "

" Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good. "

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

" Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? "

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

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

Taken For Granted

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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