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

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" 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! "

" Liberty is worth paying for. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you. "

" Is not a woman's heart unfathomable? "

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The wisest man may be a blind father. "

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

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