A scholar has to know a little of everything.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

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.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

What one man can think, another man can do.

One's native land!?there should one live! there die!

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.