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

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" 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. "

" 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 wisest man may be a blind father. "

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

" Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "