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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Liberty is worth paying for. "

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

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

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

" 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! "

" It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Man is never perfect nor contented. "

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

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