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" 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. "

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" Is not a woman's heart unfathomable? "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The wisest man may be a blind father. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. "

" Liberty is worth paying for. "

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

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