Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.