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" 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. "

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" So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for 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. "

" 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? "

" Is not a woman's heart unfathomable? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The wisest man may be a blind father. "

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

" 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. "

" If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence. "

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

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

" The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

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

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