The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.