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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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! "

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

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

" 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. "

" With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

" Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. "

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

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