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?

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

Look with all your eyes, look.

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

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

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.