Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
You are going to visit the land of marvels.
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.
Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.