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" Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other. "

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" To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical. "

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

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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 the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future. "

" 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. "

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

" Man is never perfect nor contented. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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