Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

What you do for money you do badly.

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.