I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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.
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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.