He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.