What darkness to you is light to me
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.
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
Man is never perfect nor contented.
It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.
It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.