But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

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?

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

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.