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

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

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

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

Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.