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?
It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.
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.
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.
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.
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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.
One's native land! There should one live! There die!
Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
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.
If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.
You're never rich enough if you can be richer.
You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!
The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.
One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes.
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
Is not a woman's heart unfathomable?
