We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.