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" The wisest man may be a blind father. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

" It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it. "

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" Man is never perfect nor contented. "

" The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" When one has taken root, one puts out branches. "

" 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. "

" Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. "

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

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

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