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.

Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.

Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

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.

Liberty is worth paying for.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?