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

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. "

" Man is never perfect nor contented. "

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

" A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. "

" The wisest man may be a blind father. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "