But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.