My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
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.