We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.