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

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" Liberty is worth paying for. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man. "

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

" Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English. "

" Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same! "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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 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? "

" However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Is not a woman's heart unfathomable? "

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

" Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires. "

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

" 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

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

" Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! "

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