Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
What you do for money you do badly.
He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.