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

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" Man is never perfect nor contented. "

" 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. "

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

" Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin. "

" 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

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

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

" 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! "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. "

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

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

" In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered. "

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

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

" 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? "