When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.