Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator? "

" 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? "

" 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 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? "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Man is never perfect nor contented. "