Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

Look with all your eyes, look.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.