I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.

As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

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

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.

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.