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

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" 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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" 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. "

" I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. "

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

" 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! "

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

" We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" Liberty is worth paying for. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Man is never perfect nor contented. "

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