While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that 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.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!