If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.