In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

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

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.

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

The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.

At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.