I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

You are going to visit the land of marvels.

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

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.