What one man can think, another man can do.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

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.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!