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?

Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.

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

The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

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